Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uflorida!gatech!udel!princeton!njsmu!mccc!pjh From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: sexist language Message-ID: <409@mccc.UUCP> Date: 18 Nov 88 18:26:45 GMT References: <17573@adm.BRL.MIL> Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) Organization: The College On The Other Side of U. S. Route 1 Lines: 21 In article <17573@adm.BRL.MIL> rbj@nav.icst.nbs.gov (Root Boy Jim) writes: =One of the changes I would like to see is actually a technical violation =of grammar, but sounds ok to me: = ="If a user deletes all HIS files" -> "If a user deletes all THEIR files" "If users delete all their files" = = (Root Boy) Jim Cottrell (301) 975-5688 = or = Crackers and Works -- Breakfast of Champions! ^^^^^ worms?? -- Pete Holsberg UUCP: {...!rutgers!}princeton!mccc!pjh Mercer College CompuServe: 70240,334 1200 Old Trenton Road GEnie: PJHOLSBERG Trenton, NJ 08690 Voice: 1-609-586-4800